Rejection: A Sales Thing…

Rejection comes in a lot of forms. “No.” “I’m sorry, I’m not interested.” “I can’t make a decision about that.” “That’s not my department.” Worst of all is the lack of a response, which I still don’t have a better word for than “ghosted.” There are countless ways for a sales call to be rejected,…

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Succinctness of Thought

Two people were in a JLG scissor lift removing a panel to get to the motor that controlled one of the flap motors of the KC-10 as the smell of an evaporating rain lingered on the grassy field of the Air Force flightline on a mid-summer’s day in New Jersey. RUSS Hey. Get me the…

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VAK Debunked

In “Walk With Me” I called VAK a neuromyth and kept walking. It needs more than that. The Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic (VAK) learning system traces back to late-19th and early-20th-century psychology. Its roots are in the study of mental imagery and personality (William James, Wilhelm Wundt, Ernst Meumann’s “ideational types”) and, more concretely, in…

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